Cassaforte Story

Cassaforte was started about 11 months ago as an experiment. Back then we needed a
database well suited for time series data, and Cassandra is a good choice. However,
dealing with existing clients, namely Hector and Astyanax, was quite a bit of a pain.

In the end, using Cassandra’s low level Thrift client worked well and we have
been improving the codebase bit by bit, while working on an event collection and
analytics system.

A few months ago, DataStax released a new Java driver for Cassandra that was
a lot better suited to what Cassaforte needed to power it than any other alternative.

We were able to switch Cassaforte to it in a couple of weeks. About the same time,
a great fellow Max Penet released a Clojure DSL for generating CQL, Hayt.